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13-letter words containing s, y, n, c

  • sand-yachting — the sport of riding in a sand yacht
  • scientificity — the application of scientific methods and principles
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • screaming tty — [Unix] A terminal line which spews an infinite number of random characters at the operating system. This can happen if the terminal is either disconnected or connected to a powered-off terminal but still enabled for login; misconfiguration, misimplementation, or simple bad luck can start such a terminal screaming. A screaming tty or two can seriously degrade the performance of a vanilla Unix system; the arriving "characters" are treated as userid/password pairs and tested as such. The Unix password encryption algorithm is designed to be computationally intensive in order to foil brute-force crack attacks, so although none of the logins succeeds; the overhead of rejecting them all can be substantial.
  • screen memory — a childhood memory, perhaps recalled falsely, that screens out a more distressing recollection.
  • scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
  • secondary era — the period from the beginning of the Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous
  • security zone — an area controlled by security forces
  • semisynthetic — derived synthetically from one or more substances of natural origin.
  • severance pay — money, exclusive of wages, back pay, etc., paid to an employee who has tenure and who is dismissed because of lack of work or other reasons beyond the employee's control.
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shockumentary — a television programme showing members of the public in shocking or violent situations
  • siege economy — an economy in which the export of capital is limited and import controls are imposed
  • significantly — important; of consequence.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • silicon alley — an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • specimen copy — a copy of a document regarded as typical of that type of document
  • spectinomycin — an antibiotic drug, C 1 4 H 2 4 N 2 O 7 , produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces spectabilis, used in the treatment of susceptible gonorrhea.
  • sperry univac — (company)   One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
  • splanchnology — the visceral system
  • spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
  • squeaky clean — If you say that someone is squeaky clean, you mean that they live a very moral life and have never done anything wrong.
  • squeaky-clean — scrupulously clean.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • subjectifying — to make subjective.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sunday school — a school, now usually in connection with a church, for religious instruction on Sunday.
  • sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
  • syllabication — to syllabify.
  • symbolic link — (file format)   (SYLK) A Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, (not to be confused with symbolic link). SYLK format existed in one form or another in as early as 1987, and was part of Excel v1.0. It is is an outgrowth of VisiCalc DIF file format. SYLK format is ascii text and represents information about both formula, value, and some formatting information, which makes it something like an RTF for spreadsheets. It is used as a general tabular data exchange format.
  • synallagmatic — relating to a reciprocally binding contract
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synchondrosis — the joining of two bones by cartilage
  • synchronicity — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronistic — coincidence in time; contemporaneousness; simultaneousness.
  • synchronizing — to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another: Synchronize your watches.
  • synchronology — combined chronology
  • synchronously — occurring at the same time; coinciding in time; contemporaneous; simultaneous.
  • syndesmectomy — excision of part of a ligament.
  • synecdochical — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • synodic month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
  • syntactically — of or relating to syntax: syntactic errors in English; the syntactic rules for computer source code.
  • synthetically — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
  • systematician — a person who adheres to, or creates, a system
  • the necessary — the money required for a particular purpose
  • the secondary — cornerbacks and safeties collectively
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